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Wireless holes - protecting retailers from themselves

2008-01-16 15:57:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...retailers have in their wireless infrastructure. Apparently, wireless security company AirDefense walked around New York City and ran their analyzer against many small retailers. They found that over a third did not have even basic and easily hacked WEP protection According to the article access to the unprotected access points and...
 
Tags: retailers, wlan traffic, collect mac addresses, traffic, inbuilt protection, tjx scenario, apparently, data, wireless infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...retailers and financial institutions which provide at least some form of multi-factor authentication to protect against password theft. The following list gives a compass to consumers and vendors to navigate the misty waters of online transactions Smart cards / USB tokens (very costly, high level of security, great user inconvenience Hardware...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Security World: PCI expert suggests retailers address both security and business availability

2007-12-13 18:35:12 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
The holiday shopping season is again putting the spotlight on PCI compliance, including the measures retailers must take to ensure the confidentiality of consumer data. However, IT management expert J
 
Tags: pci compliance, management expert, measures retailers, consumer data, holiday, ensure, confidentiality, spotlight, season
 
 
 
 
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Wireless LAN scan finds big security holes in NYC retailers wireless nets

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by John Cox in Network World on Security
 
...retailers have "bulletproof" WLAN security, according to a new onsite survey by AirDefense during the National Retail Federation trade show. But the remainder have weak or non-existent defense, putting company, customer, and employee data at risk New Webcast: How to Profit with Remote Support Advertisement Discover how remote support can...
 
Tags: remote support, nyc retailers, onsite survey, non-existent defense, employee data, wlan security, fuel, advertisement, remainder
 
 
 
 
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230 retailers affected by data breach after tape lost

2008-01-18 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A backup tape containing credit-card information from hundreds of U.S. retailers is missing, forcing the company responsible for the data to warn customers that they may become the targets of data fraud
 
Tags: data, data fraud, retailers, warn customers, company responsible, credit-card information, backup tape, targets, hundreds
 
 
 
 
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How IT is helping retailers fight theft

2008-03-11 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b88900 in Network World on Security
 
It's difficult to be a customer-focused retailer these days if you're too busy worrying that your employees are stealing merchandise and money from right under your nose-and contributing to the $40 billion shrink problem that has slammed hard into U.S. retailers' profits in 2007
 
Tags: retailers, nose-and, employees, profits, billion, money, days, merchandise, retailer
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance are you just checking the box?

2007-11-14 22:05:00 by Patrick McGregor in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...retailers are facing in complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards . I speak with many retailers in my role BitArmor helps them secure and manage cardholder data in their environments. One of the challenges that retail CISOs face is selling senior management on the funding of PCI initiatives. Often, senior management would...
 
Tags: pci, pci compliance, pci requires, address pci challenges, challenges, address, pci initiatives, retailers, data protection benefits
 
 
 
 
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J.C. Penney customers affected by lost GE Money backup tape

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2008-01-18 10:24:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retailers" which include "many of the large retail organizations Number Affected 650,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, account numbers, Social Security numbers, and other information Breach Description GE Money and it's backup storage vendor, Iron Mountain are unable to locate a backup tape. The unencrypted tape contained sensitive...
 
Tags: penney, penney customers, tape, backup tape, money, sensitive personal information, personal information, penney card immediately, information security practices
 
 
 
 
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When Will the Media Industry Embrace the BORA Principle?

2007-03-22 10:06:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...retailers) wouldnt embrace ecommerce until they created a process by which credit card numbers couldnt be stolen online Their fear clouded their ability to approach the problem logically. If a credit card can easily be cloned by your waiter at a restaurant, then why protect the same card during an online transaction? Or better yet, why...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, credit card industry, credit card fraud, industry, media industry, cut fraud, fraud, credit cards